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quick-tempered

quick-tempered adjective: easily or quickly angered or frustrated.

Adjective

quick-tempered (comparative more quick-tempered, superlative most quick-tempered)

  1. Easily or quickly angered or frustrated.
    • He was a quick-tempered fellow who was generally avoided by his co-workers.

quick-tempered meaning in Malayalam

quick-tempered in Malayalam

irascible, irritable, hot-tempered
മുൻകോപമുള്ള, മൂക്കത്തുശുണ്ഠിയുള്ള, കലഹി്രയനായ, എപ്പോഴും വഴക്കിടുന്ന, വെറിപിടിച്ച, വേഗം കോപം വരുന്ന

Synonyms of quick-tempered

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Forms of quick-tempered

comparativemore quick-tempered
superlativemost quick-tempered

Questions about quick-tempered

What does quick-tempered mean?
Quick-tempered means easily or quickly angered or frustrated.
What is quick-tempered in Malayalam?
Quick-tempered in Malayalam is മുൻകോപമുള്ള, മൂക്കത്തുശുണ്ഠിയുള്ള, കലഹി്രയനായ. See Quick-tempered meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is quick-tempered?
Quick-tempered is an adjective.

Words near quick-tempered in the dictionary

  1. quick-handedness
  2. quick-hearted
  3. quick-like
  4. quick-setting
  5. quick-sighted
  6. quick-tempered
  7. quick-thinking
  8. quick-thinkingness
  9. quick-tongued
  10. quick-witted
  11. quick-wittedly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quick-tempered (page history and authors); quick-tempered (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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